MAKING IDEAS WORK

WHAT WE DO

At our business incubators in Waterford and Kilkenny we help entrepreneurs to harness amazing ideas, creativity and innovation and to convert concepts into thriving, commercial businesses.

We believe that entrepreneurs are the key to creating jobs, prosperity and economic growth. Our incubators support a community of high-tech startup companies and growing businesses. We enable entrepreneurs to collaborate with each other and with our research teams in a unique work environment. There are no limitations to how we can work together.

If your business can use some of the best strategists, designers and R&D resources available, then ArcLabs is the place for you to evolve and grow. Our goal is to build the best community of entrepreneurs and startups in Ireland and we're getting there.

OUR CLIENTS

SOME OF OUR CURRENT CLIENTS

StitcherAds

Facebook Advertising & Campaign Management For Retailers

Waterford | London | Austin

StitcherAds is an application that enables online retailers to manage and optimize their pre-targeting and re-targeting direct response advertising on Facebook. Using your existing product catalog feed you can create hundreds of ads in minutes. With StitcherAds you can quickly re-target prospective customers who looked at a product but didn't buy, create ads for different devices, audience segments and add rules to automatically turn off ads that don’t meet your performance targets.

Keenan InTouch

Technology-Enabled Services For Dairy Farmers

Kilkenny

The InTouch AgriTech control box provides dairy farmers with access to a website application and telephone support from a team of top nutritionists who constantly monitor herds. In this way, InTouch helps to manage herd health, ration formulation, yield and costs, in order to free up cash flow in addition to improving profits.

Pin Point Alerts

Alert Services For Communities and Service Organisations

Kilkenny

Delivering reliable, secure, cost-effective and easy-to-manage alert systems to national and international clients. Services available through a number of channels including SMS Text Messages, Email, Smartphone Apps, Landlines, Social Media and other web channels.

GIY International

A Global Movement of People Who Grow Their Own Food.

Waterford | Bristol

Our big idea? When people grow their own, they gain a deeper understanding of food called ‘food empathy’ which acts as a lever to a healthier lifestyle. There are 50,000 people involved online and in the community, supported by the GIY foundation, which runs campaigns and events to inspire and support people to grow their own.

Finola Howard

Great Marketing Works

Waterford

Sometimes it’s a pure mentoring role, sometimes it’s brand development, redevelopment or deployment. Other times it’s highly strategic and the visible evidence of the work is only reflected in confidential documents. But always, always it’s about how to create great marketing because, simply put – great marketing works.

MyBio

Materials and Services For Research Organisations

Kilkenny

MyBio partners with the leading providers of research materials for cellular and molecular biology, nucleic acid chemistry, epigenetics, chromatin biology and other research materials.

Carlow Kilkenny Energy Agency

Providing Sustainable Energy Information and Services

Carlow | Kilkenny

The Carlow Kilkenny Energy Agency is a non profit public-good energy consultancy. The Mission of the CKEA is to lead and support Co. Kilkenny & Co. Carlow to reduce its CO2 emissions by stimulating and contributing to the implementation of best practise in the field of sustainable energy. CKEA has extensive knowledge and experience in energy auditing, integration of renewable energies, feasibility studies etc. of small enterprises.

Nutrasight

Dedicated to the role of nutrition in optimising and maintaining good vision.

Waterford

Nutrasight Consultancy is a company dedicated to eye health, with emphasis on the role of nutrition in optimising and maintaining good vision. Nutrasight Consultancy conducts quality research into ocular disease, and is also involved in the dissemination of information relating to eye health. We also provide research courses for clinicians-in-training, and interactive workshops on medical statistics.

Fonesense

The World's Largest Audio Billboard Network

Waterford

FoneSense uses multi-sensory mobile engagement to enable advertisers to reach their target consumers and turn them into brand ambassadors, rewarding them with coupons, apps, cash or donations to charity.

Sightrisk

Solutions For Age-Related Vision Loss

Waterford | Germany

Sightrisk can assess your risk of developing age-related blindness. By taking appropriate and informed action, in a timely manner, together we can help to reduce the risk of vision loss.

iResource

Customised Training and Education Programmes

Kilkenny

Working with Information Technology, we specialse in education programmes around civic, social and political education. Our small team of expert trainers have built an impressive profile of clients throughout Ireland. Our mission is to assist our clients to communicate, empower and excel.

John Rooney Graphic Design

Brand & Design

Waterford

Helping clients to say what they want to say, visually.

Millenis

Waterford | Europe | Far East

Millenis' main activities are in specialty markets: magnesia, molasses and derivatives, trace elements, casein and other dairy products, and specialty grains. On the strength of its internationally recognised expertise Millenis guarantees optimized sourcing and global business traceability adjusted to the needs of all its partners, be they suppliers or customers.

Biocide Information

Market and Product Information For the Global Biocides Industry

Waterford

BI via its databank, specialises in the provision of information for Biocide suppliers, regulatory authorities and end-users. BI’s leading product is Diamond Databank which provides information on End-User Applications, Country Consumption of Biocides and a monthly summary of press clippings on Biocides, Suppliers, Patents, Regulations and End-User industries. The information is sourced from hundreds of chemical and industry journals which cover the Americas, Asia and Europe.

GBRdirect

Live access to trusted, official data on over 55 million companies

Waterford | London | Singapore | California

Download official up to date company reports, annual accounts, company profiles, company director details all from Companies House Official Databases. With access to over 150 Corporate Registries worldwide, and growing, GBR's search portal allows searching by company name, company number or director.

MIT Education Solutions

Information Systems for Schools and Colleges

Waterford

MIT is a software development company providing services and solutions to educational organisation throughout Ireland and Europe. Working in co-operation with schools and colleges, MIT designs, develops, implements and supports Administrative & eLearning Solutions.

Errigal Software Systems

Turnkey Networks Operations Centres

Waterford | San Francisco

Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Errigal delivers operations and support system (OSS) software to the mobile network industry. Since 1996, Errigal has developed a reputation for robust and trusted solutions in the Network/Fault Management, Performance Management and Configuration Management/Inventory arenas.

Primeur

Primeur is a multinational company and one of the main producers of middleware solutions for distributed and heterogeneous IT systems. We also provide software and services for SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), communication middleware, legacy application integration and data security.

We work with each entrepreneur to create individual plans for developing viable, profitable and thriving businesses.

Examples of our support programmes include:

New Frontiers is Enterprise Ireland’s national entrepreneur development programme for innovative, early-stage startups. It is a three-phase programme and is delivered jointly by WIT and IT Carlow in the South East region. If you believe that you are capable of building a new sustainable business, apply now for a place on this programme.

WIT has completed over 600 Innovation Voucher projects for SMEs across the island of Ireland. Vouchers worth €5,000 are available to assist any registered limited company to explore a business opportunity or problem. Innovation Vouchers can be used for a wide range of innovation or knowledge transfer projects. The knowledge gained from a project may be used to solve business problems or to innovate a product, process or service.

The SME Instrument supports close-to-market activities that will result in breakthrough innovation. Highly innovative SMEs with a clear commercial ambition and a potential for high growth and internationalisation are the prime target.

Technology Transfer Office (TTO)

The TTO is a partnership with Enterprise Ireland that enables industry to engage with academics to maximise the commercial impact of their expertise and research.The focus is on ensuring that innovative technologies are made available to businesses and are used to create sustainable jobs and economic growth. The Technology Transfer Office is often the first point of contact for industry and other external agencies interested in identifying the research capabilities within the Institute and exploring how WIT experts can add value to a business.

Bill runs a research group and mentors new and developing businesses. Prior to joining academia, Bill ran his own business for 9 years. His work experience includes executive-level roles in multinational organisations.

Kathryn is Manager of Industry Services in Office of the VP of Research at WIT. Kathryn manages the Institute’s support infrastructure for sponsored research and the technology transfer function in WIT. Prior to joining WIT, Kathryn worked in executive and management roles in financial services and international consultancy.

James attributes WIT's success in R&D to, "Our understanding about how to leverage industry funding, to access further funding to make their contribution go further, our focus on the business opportunity and not just the project, and our commitment to all parties.” WIT has more than 250 ongoing projects with a variety of companies across different industry sectors.

Kieran helps researchers, students and companies to identify funding opportunities available through EU programmes. He provides support to WIT's research community on proposals and project matters. Kieran has worked in WIT as an instructional designer, researcher, and project manager.